Performances travel and visual cultures circulate. In this seminar, we examine how dramatic texts, cinematic representations, visual icons, and performance traditions travel and transform in contemporary global context. We look at how established visual and performance traditions continually experience temporal, spatial, and transcultural reconfigurations. Focusing on traces of historical continuum, pictures of intermedia compositions, and processes that involve both national and transnational forces, we explore global receptions and reinventions of local visual images and performance traditions and how they metamorphose into new artistic and sociopolitical phenomena. Suggested topics may include: Transnational remapping of performance traditions Intercultural appropriation Exotificaiton and eroticization Performance arts in cultural contact zones New spaces of performances Intermediality Relationship between temporality and spatiality in global performances Avant-garde reinvention of traditional performance arts Cultural tourism and performances Receptions and practices of performance techniques in foreign cultures Visual adaptation Transcultural references and evocation Global circulation of embodied practice Textual, visual, and spectatorial reception of the Other New forms of Orientalism Performance and postcoloniality Tension between cultural specificity and global receptions Challenges facing traditional cultural transmission Models of visual and performance circulation of and beyond notions of hybridity, interculturalism, transnationalism, and transculturation